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The Miners' Hymns

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(No longer in theaters)
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  • Director: Bill Morrison
  • Running Time: 52 minutes
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Genre

Drama

Release Date

Feb 8, 2012

Review

Experimental documentarian Morrison is something of a magician when it comes to already-existing footage, and here he uses mostly archival images to create a surprisingly aestheticized vision of the bygone coal-mining culture of Northern England. It’s a lovely, stark film, and it’ll be hard to shake the images of the miners’ faces long after its slight running time has expired.

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